Ernst G. Schiffner

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Ernst Günther Schiffner (born July 23, 1903 in Marienwerder , West Prussia , † March 20, 1980 in Hamburg or Celle ) was a German actor and director .

Life

The merchant's son had already played theater since 1919 and received his first roles at the theater in his native Marienwerder. Further commitments led him all over the German province, including Bonn , Mainz and Magdeburg . When the National Socialists came to power, Schiffner found himself in Berlin and worked there at various venues: the theater on Behrenstrasse , the Volksbühne and the Metropol-Theater . During the entire war period (1939 until all German theaters were closed in the summer of 1944), Ernst Schiffner belonged to the ensemble of the German Theater in Prague .

Schiffner, who is said to have already played around 20 roles in silent films - titles cannot currently be found - has been in front of the camera intensively since his arrival in Berlin. He covered the entire range of classic batches: he was seen as a stage manager and a king of Saxony, as a commissioner and mayor, as a police officer and as a taxi driver, as a court reporter and as a merry-go-round operator.

After the war, Schiffner concentrated on the stage again and worked as artistic director in Celle and Hanover, among others . In the season 1952/53 he can be proven as a director and actor at the municipal theaters of Gelsenkirchen , area operetta. From 1955 he found employment (acting and directing) at the United City Theaters in Krefeld and Mönchengladbach and again in Bonn and at the Harburg Theater . In between (1954) he also worked at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . In 1961 Schiffner was brought to the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken as an actor and director .

In these later years, Ernst Schiffner hardly found time to appear in front of the camera. After 1945 he only appeared very rarely in movies and only occasionally, especially in the late 1960s, in television productions. There he was seen mainly as a dignitary (judge, professor, city governor). Schiffner probably died in Hamburg or in Celle.

Filmography (selection)

Radio plays

annotation

  1. ↑ Glenzdorf, p. 1494

literature

  • Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 644.
  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1494.

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personal data
SURNAME Schiffner, Ernst G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schiffner, Ernst Günther (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienwerder , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1980
Place of death Hamburg or Celle